Ah, the bottle sterilizer: It's one of the first gadgets you think you need as a first-time parent, when you're spraying every inch of the home with Lysol and making guests sanitize their hands before picking up your bundle of joy, and it's also one of the first you throw up on Craigslist after baby number two comes along and time becomes more precious than germ warfare.
That noted, there's a reason Avent's iQ 24 Steam Sterilizer ($79.99) ranks near the top of Amazon's 100 most registered-for baby gadgets: It zaps up to six Avent bottles and/or screw rings, nipples and breast-pump accessories at a germ-annihilating 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and features intelligent technology (hence the "iQ") that counts down, displays and alerts you to each stage of the sterilization cycle. In other words, it understands how gullible first-timers can be.
